Posted in Life, School on July 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Today I’m the subject of a press release:
Paul Evan Peters Fellowship Current Recipient
2008-2010:
ELISABETH JONES
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Elisabeth Jones is the 2008 recipient of the Paul Evan Peters Fellowship for graduate study in the information sciences or librarianship. Jones [...]
Posted in Life, School on September 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Tomorrow is the first day of school.
In my life, I will have started at a new school seven times. It has consumed nineteen years of my life. That’s nearly 75%. And much of the remaining quarter was before age five. I’ve attended schools in five states, two countries, and four time zones. It’s [...]
Posted in Books, Random, School on December 10, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
A discussion — perhaps a debate — between Chris Anderson and Robert Putnam on the future of American community, in light of existing and emerging media and communications technologies.
Just sayin’.
Posted in Books, School on September 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
This week, my Stat professor assigned a couple chapters from Freakonomics as a course reading. I saw that yesterday, thought, “Hey, I’ve been meaning to read that anyway,” and instead of just printing off the selections from the course website, I went to Borders and bought the book. And between 5 pm yesterday [...]
Posted in IP, School on March 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Maybe it’s just because I read this article while swilling down my morning coffee, but it literally got my heart pounding. Essentially, Siva is sketching the outlines of a new academic field – Critical Information Studies – that exists at the intersection of many others, from ComSci to the classical social sciences to law [...]
Posted in Books, Libraries, School on November 28, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I have in front of me four books. One is to be expected: it’s Lawrence Lessig’s The Future of Ideas. The other three, well, less likely: they’re all tomes on the history of the library in American culture. Now, obviously, there is a link here — Lessig writes about the state of [...]
